Meet Your Mental Helper

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Mark Bottinick, LCSW-C — a therapist with over 30 years of experience who helps people who feel stuck despite years of traditional psychotherapy. Mark specializes in Energy Psychology (including EFT tapping, Logosynthesis, and other modalities) that work directly with the body’s energy system and the mind’s predictive patterns to crea...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Sheryl Woodhouse—Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Lake Forest, California, specializing in grief, loss, and major life transitions. She helps adults and families navigate trauma, identity, and relationship challenges by integrating authenticity, practical boundaries, and body-based support for meaningful change....

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Natasha D’Arcangelo—QS, LMHC, LPC and Florida Qualified Supervisor based in Orlando, Florida, specializing in compassion fatigue education and resilience support for professional caregivers. She helps clinicians, nurses, educators, and other helpers navigate burnout and secondary trauma using practical nervous-system regulation and ev...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Matt Young—life coach with qualifications in Hypnotherapy (RTT) and NLP based in London, UK, specializing in anxiety, fear, and helping people break emotional patterns that keep them stuck. He helps clients navigate panic, phobias, and performance-related fear using an integrative blend of mindset work, subconscious methods, and body-...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host James Weisbecker interviews Morgan Olivia deAmezola—LMHC and Qualified Supervisor based in Miami, Florida, specializing in trauma-informed counseling and recovery-oriented care. She helps adults navigate grief, addiction, and life disruption using lived experience, compassion, and clinical insight. Discover how Morgan’s unexpected path into therapy...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Camryn Bryan—peer support specialist and graduate student therapy intern specializing in first episode psychosis care. Camryn works closely with individuals navigating psychotic symptoms, community education, and stigma reduction. Discover how Camryn approaches psychosis through a trauma-informed, nervous-system lens, including neuroc...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Daniel Maxwell Rubin—LMHC, LPC based in Wilton Manors, Florida, specializing in men’s mental health and intensive outpatient care. He helps working professional men navigate depression, anxiety, addiction, and isolation using a clinically-driven IOP model focused on personalized treatment and strong therapeutic support. Discover how D...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Patrick Thomas—LCSW-S and founder of Impact Counseling Services based in Phoenix, Arizona, specializing in individualized therapy, couples counseling, and clinical supervision. He helps individuals and couples navigate anxiety, depression, relationship stress, and major life challenges using an approach that emphasizes practical growt...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews John Weiman—relationship coach based in Baltimore, Maryland, specializing in Gottman-informed relationship support and practical connection-building tools. He helps couples and partners navigate conflict, emotional distance, and communication breakdowns using structured methods and real-world rituals of connection. Discover how John a...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Ashley Pettway, APC—an associate-level therapist in Georgia who provides virtual therapy and mental health education through Sage Mental Wellness Center. Ashley’s work focuses on anxiety, trauma-informed care, burnout, and the ways systems and identity shape mental health. Ashley shares how her early life experiences, disability advoc...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Nathan Driskell, MA, LPC — a therapist, author, and public speaker based in the Houston/Cypress area of Texas, specializing in internet addiction and high-functioning autism. He helps teens, young adults, and adults — along with concerned parents — understand how technology, neurodiversity, and anxiety intersect so they can create rea...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jiminterviews Faith Foo—an EMDR therapist, EMDR-inspired transformation coach, andlicensed counselor based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, specializing inhigh-functioning professionals, leaders, and creatives. She helps ambitiousclients move through trauma imprints, nervous-system overwhelm, impostersyndrome, and performance blocks so they can grow in wa...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Leslie Gould-Barkman —a somatic therapist, certified Emotion & Body Code practitioner, energy worker, and Akashic Records reader based in Western Massachusetts , specializing in somatic healing and energy-based approaches . She helps adults healing from trauma, stress, and chronic patterns navigate mind-body symptoms by integratin...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim interviews Francesca Francis —a BACP-registered integrative therapist based in the UK , specializing in children, young people, and adults . She helps clients navigate identity, self-worth, people-pleasing, health anxiety, and post-COVID social challenges by integrating person-centred therapy, CBT, creative/play-based methods, and storytelling f...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, we talk with Michael Shumway, a licensed associate counselor based in Tempe, Arizona, who specializes in existential and Jungian therapy with a mythopoetic approach. Michael shares his journey from working at a boys ranch to launching a counseling career focused on helping young adults and couples navigate life transitions, anxiety, and relationships. We...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, we feature Warrior Coach Chief Master Mike Kassebaum, an eighth-degree black belt, champion martial artist, and longtime instructor. Chief Master Kassebaum shares his journey from student to master, how martial arts transforms lives, and what it takes to develop true confidence and resilience—on and off the mat. We discuss: • The mental side of martial a...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim Weisbecker talks with Becky Roberts, founder of Becky Roberts Coaching. Becky is a mindfulness and somatic wellness coach, artist, and longtime educator. She specializes in supporting women navigating life transitions—whether facing grief, empty nest, career changes, or anxiety. Becky shares how she integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS), mind...

Kayla shares her journey as a blind personal development coach, her unique approach to overcoming limiting beliefs, and how she blends mindfulness, somatic coaching, energy work, and creative arts to help clients thrive. Discover how Kayla uses reiki and chakra alignment, crafts and tactile art for the blind and visually impaired, and practical techniques to develop self-trust, intuition, and resi...

In this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, host Jim Weisbecker talks with Jane Young, LMHC—licensed clinical mental health counselor, board-certified coach, EMDRIA-certified EMDR consultant, and professional animal communicator. Based in Massachusetts and Vermont, Jane shares her personal healing journey from narcissistic abuse and discusses the latest approaches to trauma recovery, including EMD...

On this episode of Meet Your Mental Helper, Dr. Greg Moody—eighth-degree black belt, counselor, author, and entrepreneur—shares how martial arts can transform confidence, reduce bullying, and help kids (and adults) thrive. Based in Arizona, Dr. Moody’s groundbreaking research proved martial arts builds self-esteem and reduces bullying—especially for neurodivergent kids. We discuss: Martial arts fo...